Printing blue pages after upgrading ghostscript to 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.5

[Matheus Carminatti Angelo]

Various machines running Ubuntu 16-04 are printing blue background pages after upgrading 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.4 to 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.5 in the automatic updates. The issue is bigger because, after solving by manually installing the 16.04.4 version, any upgrade in hplip or automatic system upgrades reinstall the lastest version.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Amin (amshali)]

I have the same problem. Installed hplip today for my HP OJ 6958 printer and blue color printed all over the page.

Package: ghostscript
Version: 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.5

$ hp-check

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.19.1)
Dependency/Version Check Utility ver. 15.1

Copyright (c) 2001-15 HP Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

Note: hp-check can be run in three modes:
1. Compile-time check mode (-c or --compile): Use this mode before compiling the HPLIP supplied tarball (.tar.gz or .run) to determine if the proper dependencies are installed to
successfully compile HPLIP.
2. Run-time check mode (-r or --run): Use this mode to determine if a distro supplied package (.deb, .rpm, etc) or an already built HPLIP supplied tarball has the proper dependencies
installed to successfully run.
3. Both compile- and run-time check mode (-b or --both) (Default): This mode will check both of the above cases (both compile- and run-time dependencies).

Check types:
a. EXTERNALDEP - External Dependencies
b. GENERALDEP - General Dependencies (required both at compile and run time)
c. COMPILEDEP - Compile time Dependencies
d. [All are run-time checks]
PYEXT SCANCONF QUEUES PERMISSION

Status Types:
    OK
    MISSING - Missing Dependency or Permission or Plug-in
    INCOMPAT - Incompatible dependency-version or Plugin-version

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| SYSTEM INFO |
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 Kernel: 4.15.0-45-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jan 29 16:28:13 UTC 2019 GNU/Linux
 Host: future
 Proc: 4.15.0-45-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jan 29 16:28:13 UTC 2019 GNU/Linux
 Distribution: 12 18.04
 Bitness: 64 bit

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| HPLIP CONFIGURATION |
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HPLIP-Version: HPLIP 3.19.1
HPLIP-Home: /usr/share/hp...

[Amin (amshali)]

Note that when I print from my phone via Wifi, it prints just fine.

[Randall Thompson (rthompson01)]

This is happening to me also on 18.04.